Re: Problems Fetching from HTTP?

From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2010, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <k2tc115fd3c1004011112y38265ec1h53c8e297b47983b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100401162907.GA3783@inner.home.ulmdo.de>

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:20 +0000, Tim Visher wrote:
> ...
>>     error: Failed connect to git.kernel.org:80; Connection refused
>> while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs
>>
>>     fatal: HTTP request failed
>>
>> What could be going on here?  I can't pull from `git://` as I'm behind
>> a firewall.
>
> It pretty much looks like the firewall doesn't let you directly access
> HTTP as well. You may need to use your proxy, and you (seem to) need to
> set the environment variable 'http_proxy="http://10.0.0.1:3128"' to
> point to your proxy. Google will take you from there, like
> http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/git-clone-over-http-who-knew/

Strange. I suppose they reconfigured the firewall recently as I never had to set that before and I've tracked git through http for over a year. I ended up setting `http.proxy` in ~/.gitconfig.

Thanks!

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